Zurich: India is not the first country to be banned internationally by FIFA citing third party interference. More than 10 national football federations such as Pakistan, Nigeria and Kuwait have been penalized in the last decade and a half. Kuwait was suspended in 2007, 2008 and 2015. FIFA has stated that the bill, which was introduced by the government in October 2015, encroaches on the independence of the country’s football association.
Two years later, the ban was lifted in December 2017 when a new bill was passed into law by Parliament, fully incorporating FIFA regulations. After Nigeria’s exit from the 2014 World Cup, the High Court had removed the authority of the national team from the country’s football federation and handed it over to a government official. With this, the ban imposed in July that year was lifted following a few days with the return of power.
FIFA banned the Pakistan Football Federation in October 2017 and lifted it the following year. However, the election was not accepted. Then once more in April 2021. The ban was lifted in July 2022. Following government intervention, the ban imposed on the Zimbabwe Football Federation in February this year continues. Action was also taken once morest Kenya at the same time. Not moved yet.
Due to disputes between the Ministry of Sports and the Football Federation, the action taken once morest the African country of Chad in April 2021 was postponed in October. Another African country, Benin, faced action from May to June 2016. Iraq had to be out in 2008 and from November 2009 to March 2010, Indonesia for one year from May 2015, Guatemala from October 2016 to 18 June and Brunei from September 2009 to May 2011.
